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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei met a senior military commander on Sunday and was told the country’s armed forces were fully prepared to confront any attack by the “American-Zionist enemy,” according to a report by Iranian Fars news agency.
Commander of the Khatam Al-Anbiya Central Headquarters Major General Ali Abdollahi told Khamenei that Iranian forces possessed high readiness in morale, defensive and offensive preparedness, strategic plans and military equipment needed to confront hostile actions.
He warned that if Iran’s enemies committed any “strategic mistake, aggression, or invasion,” Iranian forces would respond “swiftly, intensely, and powerfully.”
Abdollahi also said the armed forces would, “with full obedience” to the supreme leader’s orders, defend “the ideals of the Islamic Revolution, our beloved land Iran, sovereignty, national interests, and the brave Iranian nation until the last breath and to the death.”
The meeting marked the second in-person meeting involving the supreme leader in recent days, according to the statement.